Synonym: miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched. Similar words: staple, paraplegic, tactlessness, principles, less, bless, unless, useless. Meaning: ['hæplɪs] adj. deserving or inciting pity.
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31 For four days and nights, communal frenzy added a tragic dimension to this hapless and beleaguered city.
32 The Hapless family were placed in a room which was staff accommodation, overlooking the kitchens.
33 Hapless drivers draw up at the lights and are yanked from their cars at knife-point.
34 Hapless, hopelessly clumsy Gilligan is washed ashore along with the competent, self-assured skipper.
35 They came to this swampland and found a team to punish, those hapless New York Jets.
36 The thought that some hapless youth might have their future career threatened by a drugs record for one joint seems overly Draconian.
37 But Frank Bascombe, for all his hapless domestic incompetence and elaborate self-pity, was interesting and kind of likable.
38 The two hapless groups of men now mostly hid, endured, and awaited their opportunity to fire back or escape.
39 As a means of survival, these soldiers resorted to the rebels' strategy of terrorizing and looting from the hapless civilians.
40 Without hapless stationmaster, also do not have lucky stationmaster.
41 Snipers and irregulars fell on the hapless patrol.
42 the hapless victims of exploitation.
43 The hapless Dant è s was doomed.
44 His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.
45 I hope everyone can pray for the hapless victims in the diaster.
46 Like King Canute, foreign governments occasional-ly try to stop the rising tide of American cultural in-fluence,(sentencedict.com/hapless.html) and like the hapless king they always fail.
47 After telling their hapless targets that there is "no pressure" to take part, the environmental organizers press a magic button, and presto, another dissenter liquidated — literally.
48 Don't let some hapless potential partner wait needlessly at your meeting place.
49 Like other mosasaurs, Halisaurus has extra teeth called pterygoid teeth, that it uses to hold on to its prey while its jaw moves forward to swallow the hapless victim whole.
50 While the story sounds impressive, he seems ungainly for such a bit more hapless than debonair.
51 When the Hawks took the Celtics to Game Seven last season, that was massive considering everyone expected the Green Machine to steamroll the hapless Hawks.
52 A burst of laughter from the whole band of scholars greeted the unfortunate name of the hapless Court furrier.
53 Standing at the head of our second - grade class that morning [sentencedict.com], John Evans was a hapless sight.
54 Mr Mbeki will argue that economic strangulation would hurt the hapless Zimbabwean masses more than the pampered elite around Mr Mugabe.
55 Many in Germany saw the modest 74 - year - old as a hapless victim of the credit crunch.
56 Some of the greatest moments of this book recall McCourt's school days with humourless masters and 7)hapless classmates.
57 If it is honest journeywork, yet lacks purchasers, at most you may call yourself a hapless tradesman.
58 As the battle ensues between them , destruction and devastation falls on the hapless city.
59 Carrot-munching Bugs Bunny was always being pursued by his human nemesis, hunter Elmer Fudd; yet, time and time again, Bugs would narrowly escape, outwitting the hapless Fudd.
60 All those who could sympathize with you were invariably in the same hapless situation.
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